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Analysis: China’s tight grip on Hong Kong led to Trump’s Panama gambit
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. The U.S. threat to take back control of the Panama Canal and the resultant controversy have taken…